This is a pretty silly pet peeve of mine, but I really hate devices that have hardwired cables. One of the most common offenders is subwoofers' power cables; you almost never see one that's removable.

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In the race to deliver personalized streaming music channels, one thing has often been neglected: good quality sound. Fortunately, producing high fidelity stereo sound is in renaissance. Here are ...

Everyone rocks headphones when they want to hear every bit of their music or there's someone else at home, but there's nothing like listening aloud while you're working or by yourself. For those times ...

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